Subject Guide » Criminal Justice
Indexes and Databases
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Core Indexes
Criminal Justice Abstracts Comprehensive coverage of journals, books, and reports from governmental and private sources about criminology and related disciplines. Subjects include crime trends, prevention, deterrence, delinquency, police, and courts. Coverage from 1968 to the present.
Sociological Abstracts Indexes an international selection of publications in sociology and related disciplines from over 1,800 journals, serials, books, conference papers, and dissertations. Indexing and abstracting from 1963, and cited references with links from 2001. Updated monthly.
Print: HM 1 .S67 (Ref) 1953-1999
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Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Indexes articles in over 900 law journals and other publications, including yearbooks and government publications, from the US and other English-speaking countries. Includes book reviews. Coverage: 1981-present. Updated monthly.
Print: KZ .I38x (Ref.) 1952-1994
LexisNexis Academic Indexes thousands of domestic and foreign newspapers, as well as journals, and other publications in News, Business company reports and articles, Legal Research, Medical and Reference. The legal research category includes law reviews, law news, federal and state laws and cases. Mostly full text. Coverage dates vary.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Summarizes more than 170,000 publications, including Federal, State and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles and unpublished research on all aspects of criminal justice. Coverage: 1975 - present.
PsycINFO Psychological Abstracts BF 1 .P65 (General Stacks)
Covers world-wide literature in psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, and dissertations are included. Coverage: 1887-present. Updated weekly.
Use the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms for subject words: BF1 .P65x 2001 (Education Lib. and Waldo Ref.)
Social Sciences Abstracts Indexes over 600 periodicals in anthropology, economics, ethnic studies, feminist studies, geography, human services, international relations, law and criminology, police science, political science, population studies, psychology, public administration, public health, social work, sociology, urban studies, and related social science subjects. Coverage: indexing from 1983 and abstracts from 1994. Updated weekly.
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Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, and selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Disciplines include: anthropology, history, industrial relations, information & library science, law, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public health, social issues, social work, sociology, urban studies, women's studies. Because the information about each article includes the article's cited reference list (or bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage is from 1956 to present. Please LOGOFF, so others may use the database.
CQ Researcher Explores a current news issue in-depth each week. Articles typically include charts, graphs and sidebars, a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliography, and a list of contacts. Coverage from October 1991 to present.
Statistics, Data and Reports
Crime in the United States
HV 6787 .A3 This annual publication of the FBI is the main source of statistics of U.S. arrests and offences, listed by each state. The FBI web site provides the statistics in a downloadable format.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice StatisticsHV 7245. N 37b (Ref) The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Dept. of Justice compiles this publication from many sources and presents it in tables. This book is available in hard-copy, in the library, and is also available online.
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